7/3/1968 – The Kittanning Parking Authority last night signed an agreement with the Armstrong County Redevelopment Authority dealing with parking in the Hospital Renewal Project area. The agreement provides for the parking authority to develop 249 parking spaces in the area after it clears the land – 111 new parking spaces, and does not include off-street parking for senior citizens or low income housing.
7/3/1963 - Carol Cochran, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Cochran of 679 N Water Street Kittanning, is working in the Drama Workshop of IUP, which will present 6 plays this summer.
7/3/1963 - Hydroplane races will return to the Kittanning area this month after a 5 year lapse.
7/3/1958 - Freeport- F.H. Laube, president of Freeport Brick Company, announced a number of promotions and the creation of several new divisions and departments in conjunction with a new plant operation now nearing completion.
7/3/1958 - Unknown burglars made away with about $135 early this morning after breaking into Monty’s Freezer Fresh soft ice cream concession just west of Kittanning on Route 422.
7/3/1958 - State Police are “turning on the heat” against motor code violators during the upcoming Independence Day weekend in an effort to decrease accidents during the holiday.
7/3/1958 - A Manorville magician, who has branched out into archery as a sideline, will be a busy one at tomorrow’s Kittanning Community Picnic. His name is James Wingard.
7/3/1953 - Bids totaling $156,375 for construction of a 4 room Sugar Creek Twp. elementary school building were open in Harrisburg by the State Public School Building Authority.
7/3/1953 - Kittanning police launched a limited offense against the town’s starling population in answer to 2 complaints from 2nd and 3rd Ward residents.
7/3/1953 - Ford City- Police Chief Patrick Nelson confiscated a shipment of fireworks at the Railway Express office in Ford City. It was being shipped from Ohio to a resident at McGrann.
7/3/1948 - Richard F. Simpson, 22, of N Water Street, died in Armstrong County Memorial Hospital as a result of severe head injuries received in an auto accident.
7/3/1948 - One of the first television sets in Armstrong County is operating on a grassy knoll on one of the highest hills in North Buffalo Twp. William Cowan of Manorville has set up an experimental receiver atop a windswept hill on the old Cowan homestead, near the Pony Farm.
7/3/1948 - Billy, 5 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Chalmer Grafton of Kittanning RD 4, is a patient in Armstrong County Memorial Hospital where he has been undergoing examination since Thursday. Billy jumped on the back of a tractor being used by his father that afternoon in putting hay into the barn. As the tractor started to back up, Billy was thrown off and a wheel ran over his hips.
7/3/1943 - Postmaster James Perry King announced that there will be one city delivery of mail Monday morning, 5 July, but no rural service.
7/3/1943 - 25 young men residing within the area of Local Draft Board One reached the age of 18 years and enrolled for possible military service in the board offices here during June.
7/3/1933 - The 5 cent loaf of bread ceased to exist in Western Pennsylvania this morning.
7/3/1933 - Edward M. Cree, suffering from shock arising after the Allegheny River accident in which William M. Heilman lost his life, was taken to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh.
7/3/1933 - Joseph N. Henderson of the firm of Herbert and Henderson, mining engineers, is reported recovering from a severe burn received in a slight petroleum explosion occurring at the Hallston Coal Company power house near Slippery Rock.
7/3/1928 - During an electrical storm, the homes of J.S. Boyd on Route 422 and William R. Hicks of Worthington, and a barn on the Joseph Hartman farm were struck by lightning.
7/3/1928 - Mrs. Anna Baum, 77, died at her home on N. Grant Avenue.